What must I do to be Born Again?

[robrecht]

That was going around Facebook this week. I cannot count myself as a Billy Graham fan, for this sort of reason. The very phase, "everybody that loves or knows Christ, whether they are conscious of it or not..." strikes me as self-contradictory; I do not even know what it means to know something that I am never conscious of. Certainly God is calling people out of the Muslim world or the Buddhist world. The operative word there is out; that is, they are no longer of those worlds once they belong to Christ, even if they stay physically in those worlds. An inner sense of "needing something that you don't have" sounds like preparation evangelium rather than the sort of faith in Christ of which the Bible speaks.

So would your answer be 'yes' to my two questions?